Linux Client

[Serneum]

There is a somewhat unofficial Linux client listed on the YNAB website. I say unofficial because it used Adobe AIR which is no longer being supported for Linux. Any chance the Steam version is being ported to Linux so I can use it on multiple computers/operating systems?

[RodeoClown]

That's awesome! Thanks for making the video!

[stalazon]

Figured this topic might have the answer I was looking for - if I could use the client on other machines w/o having install / go through steam. That pushed me into buying it since I can share it with the wife. Along with the hard to beat the extra discount. :)

[senshikaze]

As a linux user, I am okay with YNAB using the Eve Online method. Just as long as you don't go out of your way to break Wine compatability (and maybe spend a few programmer hours once in a while to test on Wine), I don't have a problem spending the money.

Have you decided to release a wine-wrapped version (ala Dear Esther and a few other Humble Bundle games)? I know that Codeweavers offers that service, as well as at least one other. It might be easier to say "hey, it's not native, but look! double-click install on Ubuntu!" Just a thought ;-)

[RodeoClown]

We haven't looked into it - when we did provide a native Linux build, the amount of time spent supporting it was massive compared to the number of users we had (which was not many at all, unfortunately). We don't officially support YNAB on Linux, but we're more than happy for people to use it there, and we definitely won't go out of our way to break it!

If we were to provide a Linux installer, that would require us to support Linux much more than we currently can. I know it's not ideal, but it's how things are right now.

[senshikaze]

Actually, I just installed it on Ubuntu (trial). It pretty much is a double click install. I like it so far! Thanks for at least discussing it with us. Most non-Linux developers just scoff and ignore us at best, or tell us they don't want our business at worse. At least you seem to actually care, and that's alot.

[Doogle]

I'd buy it if it ran natively on Linux. Maybe another day..

[£ηιѕѕ@у]

@krmbzds, same here... I hate wine'd apps... really too bad :<

[Evil Bee]

Your software looks great - as a Linux user I'd love to be able to take advantage of that offer, but from what you've said, it sounds like it would be a lot of work supporting (damnable Adobe). I suspect that given the huge amount of personal finance software that already available for Linux (and plenty of good FOSS), it probably doesn't make a huge lot of sense anyway.

Anyway, it's nice that devs are straight up...and go out of their way to offer an alternative solution.

[teancum.of.legend]

Glad to hear it works with Wine. Something you may want to keep in your back pocket for the future is a program called CDE
http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html
"CDE (formerly known as CDEpack) automatically packages up the Code, Data, and Environment required to deploy and run your Linux programs on other machines without any installation or configuration. CDE is the easiest way to completely eliminate dependency hell. "

Basically reduces the amount of distros you have to worry about. You could even create a bundle that all ready includes wine to make it easier for some users. Just a thought.

[RodeoClown]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[Amateur Linux Gamer]

YNALC -- You Need A Linux Client.

cool idea tho. WINE is a non-starter for me, alas.

[Belladonna]

I just came to the forum myself to say that I would LOVE to purchase this, but I am a big advocate for native support, but actually my biggest hangup about using it in WINE is that it would tie up the actual Steam client; let me explain.

When you use the windows Steam client in WINE it is treated as a separate computer, so if I wanted to run this program AND play my native Linux game simultaniously it creates a problem: I cannot be logged into both at the same time.

Is there a reasonable workaround for this? If you buy it on Steam can you get it running standalone too and just run a stand alone version in WINE?

[RodeoClown]

Yeah, you can get it running standalone, but you need to run it via Steam at least once to get the activation key (Help->About->Copy Activation Key to Clipboard). Once you've done that, you can download the standalone version from our site and follow the instructions further up this thread, pasting in your activation key to get it unlocked.

Cheers,
-Ian

[Skunk Shampoo]

I wonder if it would be viable to support SteamOS. Maybe that could be a stepping stone that the Linux community can use to make it work on other distros.

I'm running Windows 7, so I'm set. Eventually, I'd like to have all of my Steam software running in a seperate partition to take advantage of the performance gains (and to seperate work and play... I know a finance app doesn't really fit in with "play", though XD). I also run Ubuntu on my laptop.

Thanks for your efforts to support Linux. :)

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Publicado originalmente por Skunk Shampoo:

I wonder if it would be viable to support SteamOS.

It would be if YNAB was DirectX based, because there would be an incentive to move to OpenGL for Mac+Linux support, but it's not a game, and DX/OpenGL have nothing to do with YNAB.

IIRC YNAB runs on Adobe Air (which might explain why the horrible performance when there's a lot of data in it), and Adobe Air (just like almost all Adobe products) doesn't work well on platforms that start with 'windows', especially not linux.

So it's unlikely to see YNAB on linux until they move to a platform that doesn't involve the luddites at Adobe.